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(from left) Beulah Brent, CEO of the nonprofit Sisters Working It Out, were joined by a University of Illinois Hospital patient (in the middle) along with Carmen Macias, a clinical research coordinator at the University of Illinois Hospital, which hosted a health fair with Brent. Photo credit: Courtesy of Sisters Working It Out

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Black Women Bonding Together to Provide Breast Cancer Support

While Black and white women may get breast cancer at the same rate, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black women die from breast cancer at a higher rate, and Beulah Brent said she wants to change that statistic.